Scholl was executed for high treason in February 1943 after distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich.
Using a computer and a projector, they proposed launching a secret information war, distributing leaflets, stickers and newspapers — mostly satirical — as well as ribbons and scarves emblazoned with the colors of the European Union.
The library also holds printed ephemera such as the Imperial War Museum Stamp Collection, leaflets and ration books, printed proclamations, newspapers, trench magazines (such the Wipers Times) and trench maps.
Moscow has offered huge financial incentives and unleashed an information war, distributing leaflets, posters, and organizing concerts with Russian pop stars to drum up support among the predominantly Russian population.
The World War II leaflet output of the western Allies alone, excluding the Soviet Union, was estimated to be at least eight billion sheets, and the United States and England dropped millions of leaflets, many of which were directions on how to surrender, during their conflict with Iraq in 2003.
The decision represents a marked change for the New York-based magazine, which started as a war-time leaflet of real-life inspirational stories.
"Make Music Not War" read the leaflets, beneath depictions of Mahatma Gandhi spinning discs.
Days after Seoul resumed blasting K-pop and derisive messages about Kim Jong-un's wife across the DMZ in response to North Korea's latest nuclear test, Pyongyang escalated the propaganda war by raining leaflets on South Korea that compared President Park Geun-hye to a zombie and threatened to "obliterate" the Kim regime's enemies.
The "leaflet war" was eventually ended by mutual agreement in the early 1970s as part of the normalisation of relations between the two German states.
Q. I'd like to know with all of the psy-ops that you've been doing since the war started before -- leaflets, e-mails -- why have there not been more high-level defections from the regime? A. Because the regime won't let them, and the regime is still present in many areas, and it is the regime and the brutality of the regime that keeps many people from taking the steps that they would like to take.
Following the end of the war the squadron dropped leaflets to advise Japanese troops that their country had surrendered and continued to make anti-submarine patrols.
